Short Cuts
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Short Cuts (1993)
The sprawling mosaic of (largely) working and middle class Los Angeles in Short Cuts stands in striking counterpoint to the industry insularity of The Player. Coursing through the networked narrative of Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt’s script, adapted from the short stories of Raymond Carver, is a symphony of experience — love, jealousy, infidelity, tragedy, creativity, cruelty, farce, sheer stupidity — summoned up from the everyday. It’s a call back to Nashville in form but also finds Altman tilling new ground in his career-long exploration of the tensions between community, or at least its possibility, and individual desire. If The Player was Los Angeles as elitist enclave, Short Cuts is a portrait of Los Angeles as America writ large.
35mm, color, 188 min. Director: Robert Altman. Screenwriters: Robert Altman, Frank Barhydt. With: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon.
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